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The Securities and Exchange Commission is facing a legal challenge from groups that argue rules meant to diversify the boards of banks and other publicly traded companies amount to discrimination.

The Federal Reserve's balance-sheet unwind is set to ramp up this week, which means the central bank will finally begin unloading the Treasury bills it started amassing almost three years ago.

Data as of Jun. 30, 2022. Dollars in thousands.

Data as of Jun. 30, 2022. Dollars in thousands.

Companies like VizyPay, Stax and Carbon Zero Financial seek fresh ideas from people who built their careers in retail, food service and other verticals.

The financial industry is offering loans for solar energy projects, carbon emission trackers, green mortgages and cash-back incentives to help customers go green.

The bottom 50% of U.S. households, generally those with a net worth of $166,000 or less before the pandemic, are in the strongest relative financial position in a generation, according to the Realtime Inequality tracker.

Federal Reserve Vice Chair Lael Brainard said Monday that the central bank's real-time payments network will go live between May and July of 2023 and financial institutions should prepare themselves right away.

The New Jersey bank hired Ravi Vakacherla after People's United was acquired by M&T Bank this March. The role is one of a number of new executive roles overseeing digital innovation in the banking industry.

The privately held First Missouri Bank has rebranded as Verimore Bank.

Drake Bank in Minnesota is working with the fintech B Generous to test whether installment loans can help bring in larger donations to nonprofits.

The cybersecurity crisis arising from super-fast computing is approaching more quickly than the industry and its regulators may realize.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's speech in Jackson Hole reaffirmed that the end of accommodative monetary policy is coming to an end. This is a boon to banks, but only those that have managed their balance sheets just right.

More than 30,000 of the bank's customers have already updated their credit cards to show their chosen name instead of their legal name, and the bank expects a similar response from debit card users.

A decade ago, Think Finance partnered with Native American tribes in an effort to avoid state interest-rate caps on consumer loans. After the company's legal woes finally ended this month, court documents shed light on its rapid rise and steep fall.